Category: Events

October 25, 2024, 2-4 p.m. via Zoom

Roundtable discussion hosted by Austria’s Young Americanists (AYA) on October 17, 2024, 9.30 a.m. (hybrid)

Roundtable discussion as part of the panel series “The Bigger Picture,” which is co-convened by the German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) October 15, 2024 at 6 p.m. via Zoom To register for this event, please go to: Webinar-Registrierung – Zoom

Conference of the research project Off the Road at Konstanz University, October 10-12, 2024

International conference at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), September 26-28, 2024

Hybrid Panel Discussion Organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. July 11, 2024  | 12 p.n. ET | 6 p.m. CET For more information and registration, please visit: Event – GHI Washington (ghi-dc.org)

International symposium co-hosted by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, the Society for the Study of the American Short Story, the American Literature Association, and the European Network for Short Fiction Research Mainz University, July 10–12, 2024 For more information, please visit: The Persistence of the Short Story: Traditions and Futures | Obama Institute…

Guest lecture by Gero Guttzeit, LMU Munich Siegen University, July 8, 2024, 4 p.m. (c.t.) The English Department of the University of Siegen cordially invites everyone to the following guest lecture: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/news/1035965.html

Interdisciplinary workshop at Passau University, June 28-29, 2024, supported by Stiftung Deutsch Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen (SDAW) HYBRID, please register via Zoom for online attendance at https://uni-passau.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u5YvduqgpjIoG9eFdpXPgxclDSyf4bi6UwTP More information and full program available here: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/ukrainian-refugee-migration/home

Conversation on Prof. Tara A. Bynum’s monograph Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America (2023) Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 6–7 p.m. CEST via Webex

A reading and conversation with Chaun Ballard June 19, 2024, 6 p.m. CEST on Zoom Zoom link and registration: https://uni-ms.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscOyhpz8iHtdeU-9Zaim9TNV5KUifWNyB#/registration )

International conference at Heidelberg University, June 10-12, 2024 The Research Training Group (Grako 2244): Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society is pleased to announce our international conference, “Institutional Authority: Trust, Judgment, Value,” June 10-12, 2024, hosted by the Heidelberg International Forum (IWH) and jointly organized with the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. “Institutional…

Digital symposium at Halle University, June 20-21, 2024 Registration Deadline: June 13, 2024 Conference website: https://muhlenbergcenter.uni-halle.de/?post_type=event&p=2405&preview=true

Webinar organized by the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), supported by the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) May 28, 2024, 6 p.m. Registration: Webinar-Registrierung – Zoom Description: Against the backdrop of present-day challenges to American democracy, this panel discussion will explore how the histories of sedition…

Lecture series at Jena and Bremen Universities Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m., from April 3 to July 3, 2024

Hybrid Lecture Series organized by the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at Greifswald University April 22 – July 10, 2024

Final information and program for the annual meeting of the Historians in the DGfA at Augustinerkloster Erfurt, May 3-5, 2024 Dear friends and colleagues,  We received so many excellent proposals that we ended up with a dense, yet also very exciting program, with Kathryn Olivarius from Stanford University as our keynote speaker. We are looking forward…

9th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law | Osnabrück, July 6-14, 2024 Extended Deadline: April 15, 2024 http://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/ The 9th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) will be held from July 6 to 14, 2024 at Osnabrück University, Germany. It aims to encourage and…

ScienceHumanities in association with Fiction Meets Science HWK Institute for Advanced Study (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg) | Delmenhorst (Germany), June 3-7, 2024 Deadline: February 23, 2024 BLUE HUMANITIES – SUMMER SCHOOL SCIENCEHUMANITIES IN ASSOCIATION WITH FICTION MEETS SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL HWK Institute for Advanced Study (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg) | Delmenhorst GERMANY MONDAY 3 JUNE – FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024 The ScienceHumanities Summer…

Interdisciplinary conference at the University of Texas, Austin | February 23-25, 2024 Attendance also possible via Zoom

Symposium at Freie Universität Berlin, April 24, 2024 Please register by February 29, 2024

German Historical Institute Spring Lecture Series 2024, February 22 – May 23, 2024

Guest Lecture & Discussion with Elena Furlanetto, Universität Essen-Duisburg January 11, 2024, 4-6pm, at the University of Siegen Invitation to Guest Lecture of Elena Furlanetto (Essen-Duisburg) | Fakultät I: Philosophische Fakultät (uni-siegen.de)

Online Guest Lecture & Discussion with Molly J. Farrell, Ohio State University January 15, 2024, 7-8 p.m., via Webex https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/news/1026129.html

Workshop at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, January 13-14, 2024

Martin Luther King Day Lecture by Dr. Nathalie Aghoro, LMU Munich Monday, January 15, 2024, 6.15-7.45 p.m. at Senatssaal, Main Building, University of Bonn

KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, December 20, 2023, 6 p.m. CET via Zoom Zoom link: https://kuei.zoom.us/j/68106271049?pwd=TGdITDRWNFNsakFqMUlnRjhkN1g4UT09 For more information, please visit: Gastvorträge Amerikanistik: Katholische Universität Eichstätt – Ingolstadt (ku.de)

First Online Open Forum of the EAAS Digital Studies Network Zoom, December 15, 2023

Organized by Blue Humanities Research Group at Bremen University All events Wednesdays, 6.15 – 7.45 p.m. via Zoom (link available through Dr. Paula von Gleich)

November 16, 2023, 9.30 a.m. – 4 p.m. via Zoom Registration: Canadian Studies Colloquium We are delighted to invite you to participate in our upcoming Canadian Studies Colloquium on November 16th from 9:30am – 4pm (CET) via Zoom, organized by the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries (GKS). The…

Lecture Series of the North American Studies Program at the University of Bonn, Germany

Prof. Dr. Liz Przybylski (University of California, Riverside) and Plains Cree hip hop performing artist Eekwol (Lindsay Knight), who will discuss “Reclaiming Power in Indigenous Artistic Presence: Hip Hop, Creativity, and Gender in the Right Now.“ Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 6:15-7:45 pm on Zoom

Organized by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Leiden (NL) and the Sciences Po Center for History (CHSP) in Paris Monthly seminars from September 2023-April 2024

International conference at TU Dresden | June 22-24, 2023

International Conference at Goethe University Frankfurt, June 23-25, 2023 The last two decades have seen a plethora of new studies on the history of the Black Power movement. Taken together, these studies have revised one-dimensional interpretations of the movement, exploring its roots, the significance of local organizing, African American women’s contributions, the movement’s political impact,…

Poetry Reading & Workshop with Dominick Knowles (Brandeis University) & Mathilda Cullen (U at Buffalo) July 7, 2023, 4-7 p.m. via Zoom Friday, July 7, 2023 | 4:00 pm–7:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am–1:00 pm EST | on Zoom Collaborating poets Mathilda Cullen and Dominick Knowles are joining us for the sixth installment in this…

Workshop (in person and via Zoom) at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) | University of Bonn, June 20-21, 2023 Deadline for registration: June 7, 2023 “Global Voyages, Local Sites: The Long Shadow of Atlantic Slavery in the Anglo-American and German Pacific” workshop brings together renowned scholars working in the fields of Slavery…

Annual conference ofthe Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Amerikahaus München Munich, July 6-8, 2023 “Environmental Citizenship: Politics, Practices, Representations” BAA Annual Conference 2023: Thursday, July 06 – Saturday, July 08, 2023 The notion of Environmental Citizenship resonates strongly across the disciplines as well as in political, educational, and activist practice. The urgency of current debates about climate change,…

Final conference of the DFG funded research network ‘The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure’ Mannheim University | May 4-6, 2023 Conference website: The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure (knowledge-failure.org) The event is open to the public, and the keynotes will be streamed. To receive the link or register for conference attendance…

Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) University of Konstanz, May 17-20, 2023 Keynotes by Homi K. Bhabha, Elleke Boehmer, and Manu Karuka For more information and conference registration, please visit GAPS 2023 – GAPS 2023 annual conference

International conference at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies | May 25-27, 2023 Registration is now open: Konferenzen – Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) (uni-heidelberg.de)

May 2-3, 2023 | University of Tübingen Dear colleagues, friends, and interested parties, we would like to draw your attention to an exciting opportunity: The symposium “Social Justice and Technological Futures” will be held in person on May 2 and 3, 2023, at the University of Tübingen in Germany. The symposium features a series of…

Bavarian America Academy, Amerikahaus Munich March 24-25, 2023

Public lecture by Angela N. Parker, Mercer University Amerikahaus München, March 14, 2023, 7.30 p.m. Information and registration: nicole.schneider@ku.de 

International Conference at Potsdam University | March 29-31, 2023 What is a crisis? From a financial, economic, political, psychological or even moral perspective, and many more, the word ‘crisis’ continues to leave traces on our public and private discourse, often accepted as an unavoidable and uncontested category to qualify the present. The three-day hybrid conference will attempt to…

Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, May 5-7, 2023 Registration is now open here: https://www.apb-tutzing.de/programm/anmeldung.php?tid=118177

International Conference at Stuttgart University | March 30-31, 2023 For more information on the program and on how to register, please visit: Conference Englishconf2023 | University of Stuttgart (uni-stuttgart.de)

Friday, December 2, 2022 | 4:00 pm–7:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am–1:00 pm EST Poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky is joining us for our fifth installment in this series. His latest books are Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018; Lake Michigan, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and The Performance of…

Amerikahaus Munich | November 17-19, 2022 “Playing the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” serves as a platform for scholarly exchange on the growing significance of the medium of video games in American (and global) culture. Contributions will examine the environments that video games affect and are impacted by through the lens of…

International and interdisciplinary conference at TU Dresden | November 9-12, 2022 This conference is dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogues between the environmental humanities and the boundary-defying work of the late philosopher of science Michel Serres. Committed to the incessant circulations between nature and culture, the global and the local, the natural sciences and the humanities, Michel…

International Conference of the Research Network Gender – Power Relations – State at Philipps-Universität Marburg and Herder-Institute Marburg | November 23-25, 2022